New Years Eve!
Like Christmas Eve, I worked on New Year's Eve. After school, I had my first class of Chinese with my new professor- should be a great quarter! Then, I ate dinner and had to get ready for our New Year's Eve Costume Party that was happening at our school. For my costume, I went as bread. Why? I'm glad you asked! My name, Brad, as pronounced by many of my Chinese friends sounds like "bread." After telling several of this mistake, they began to call me 面包 (mianbao; bread in Chinese). Since I knew there would be both the Chinese teachers as well as other people from the states, I thought this would be a great costume! We spent New Year's Eve eating snacks and playing games.New Years Day I spent some time on the computer with the parents, wishing them a Happy New Year. It was definitely a different New Year than I am used to!
Thailand Update
If you missed last week, I now have an official countdown for my vacation to Thailand:
In other Thailand related news, I will have the awesome opportunity to meet up with my good friends Tracy and Sarah while I'm in Thailand! It's official; Tracy and Sarah are flying out of San Francisco today (Jan. 4th ) at noon! They will be living in Thailand and teaching English. They have set up their very own website to keep people posted on their adventures. Check it out at the link below:
www.halfwayroundtheworld.com
My next
As of tomorrow (Jan. 5th), I will have a ROOMMATE! All I know is that his name is Ty and he is a 20 year old college student who has studied some Chinese. He will be living here in Xi'an for 5 months working on an internship. I'm super excited to meet him! Next week I'll be informing you what life with a roommate is like (can't be worse than Jake... just kidding)!
And...
Final update, See video below:
祝你生日快乐，
祝你生日快乐，
祝你生日，生日快乐，
祝你生日快乐!
3 comments:
Thank you for clarifying your costume. I was a little lost. Also the picture of the kid trying to eat you made it much clearer.
The costume is definitely great! Is that why the boy is about to bite you...because his is pretending that you are bread?
Happy New Year!!
Oh wow, this post killed me...the bread costume had me laughing out loud. All you needed was to go to the costume party with a friend named "Jan"...a little bread and jam duo would have been perfect!
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